So Steve - I think you are saying that the HP-1 still loads these systems even though they appear in the Sentinel data base as X2?
Any chance that required a specific firmware version or has the HP-1 always loaded X2 systems without nay problems?
Once again, as we've discussed in the past, makes me wonder why they are marked X2 vs P25 standard in Sentinel....
Troy,
The HP-1 does load, trunk track, and receive, these systems normally even though they are flagged as X2. I have never had any sort of mismatch error come up for system types in either the HP-1 or HP-2. The X2-TDMA system type is still an available option in creating a new system in both the HP version of Sentinel, as well as the x36HP version.
Of the growing numbers of Phase II systems in my area, the main database for the x36HP series scanners lists them as P25 Trunk whether they are newer, or the older ones which show in the HP-1/2 as P25 X2-TDMA.
Look at
PAWM system. In the RRDB, it shows as being P25 Phase II. Most talkgroups are still Phase I, but the system is being converted to fully Phase II as agencies put newer radios into service if necessary.
However, in the HP-1/-2 Sentinel, it's system type (under Collin County) is P25 X2-TDMA. In the x36HP Sentinel, it's simply P25 Trunk. The scanners don't seem to care which system description is used.
My guess is that, at the time the original Home Patrol (HP-1) was released in 2010, the X2 designation was basically a beta Motorola version of what we now consider as being Phase II. By the time the X36HP series scanners were released, the Phase II format, I believe, was officially standardized, but the HP-1 database was not changed. Apparently, once the systems are listed as a given format, that description persists. Nor was it changed when the HP-2 was introduced. I ran across something on a different system where data in the HP version (not just system type) differed from what was shown in the x36HP. Drawing a blank right now, on exactly what the details were, but there was a difference.
